Jon Stewart's Happiness For His Mentee Stephen Colbert's Success!

Stephen Colbert is one of the biggest media names in America. He has won nine Emmy Awards awards and his TV political satire show The Stephen Colbert Report has been widely acclaimed for highlighting some of the political injustices that occur in the country. He also took over media legend David Letterman's show last year, when he retired. A key part of Stephen Colbert's success is his mentor, fellow TV host Jon Stewart.

In this sketch, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart appear together with Stephen Colbert seeing his prank on Jon Stewart backfire. It follows the real life situation of Mr Colbert winning an Emmy Award ahead of Mr Stewart, who had won it for the previous ten years!!

Legends want their mentees to surpass their own achievements - they want them to grow and develop and make more of a difference. Ultimately great leaders develop other leaders. As we find out on this sketch, Jon Stewart not only guided Stephen Colbert to his Emmy, he played a key part as a producer on the show that beat his own show!

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I am passionate about fulfilling my potential in life and helping others to do the same, so that we can all make a difference to society. I’ve learnt that fulfilment comes from pursuing a goal that is greater than my own ambitions and having a real purpose.

I originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant but it was helping people through entrepreneurship and career development, rather than doing the numbers when I really came started to enjoy myself. I have found that we aren’t taught as youngsters how to deal with challenging life situations and so there are many people that on the “outside” are fine, but “inside” really struggle.